Take Away Chapter 8 (short)

Paige sat up after much kissing and called Spinner back. "Hey, Spin, you called?"

"Yeah, umm, nothing to get alarmed about, just Dean came in here early, and he might have mentioned if I'd seen you or not."

"Figures, I saw him the other day with Jay. Know anything about that?" Paige asked as I looked at her worrying face.

"Umm, no, they weren't together when I saw them. Jay came in about 3 hours earlier than Dean had. And Jay didn't say anything about Dean, he was just talking to Darcy and umm, hold on a sec." Spinner whispered in the background to Darcy asking if Jay had said anything to her about Paige, and then returned, "No, not to Darcy either."

"Well, thanks Spin, we'll keep our eyes out for him," Paige hung up the phone then pulled me close to her. "Do you think he'll come here?"

"No, I don't think he's stupid enough to do something like that. But if he is, then I'll be ready for him."

"No, you won't. You are going to stay out of it."

"Paige, this is not up for discussion. I'm going to be here and if he's here, then there's no way I'm going to let him get close to you. At all. Do you understand?" I stood up and was getting mighty pissed by that point.

"Baby…" she pulled me back down o the bed and wrapped her arms around me, "Don't, ok, just sit here with me and if worse comes to worse, we'll see what happens."

Jay pulled up to Alex's apartment complex just in time to see Chad and Emily walk out yelling at each other. "Her mom had said I was just like Chad. And I guess she's better off with Paige, if this is what she'll have to go through because of me." He sat for a while long, watching the abuse unfold as tears started to fall out of his eyes.

Spinner and Darcy left the Dot and headed for the movies. "I'm sorry Spinner."

"For what babe? None of this is your fault." Spinner grabbed Darcy's hand in his own as he drove.

"I know, but I can't imagine how it must be for her, you know? And maybe that's why she turned."

"Turned gay? No, that's not like Paige at all, but yea, I could see where it would help, I mean, it must be a motive to think all guys are creeps, but she really cares about Alex, and Alex really cares about her. It's just something that happened, and has nothing to do whatsoever with gender."

"Wow, you're like, Paige's guru, aren't you?"

"I wouldn't call me her guru. I'm just an Ex that was around when all this was going on. But I made a few mistakes as well. One's that I will not repeat with you." Spinner leaned over and kissed Darcy on the cheek as they got out of the car to go to the movies.

Dean's car came to a halt outside Paige's house. He threw a cigarette out the window and opened up his glove box. Inside was a Glock 17 fully loaded.